Russia got some of those German scientists and the US put von Braun to work immediately building rockets for its space program in Huntsville, Ala. Canadian heads of engineering for the Command module and Lunar lander were hired by NASA's Bob Gilruth after our CF-105 jet fighter program was abandoned. The US wouldn't buy it although Gilruth, then head of Manned Spacecraft Centre south of Houston, told me that---at that time---it was the best fighter in the world. I mention it because, in war and space etc, successful outcomes are mostly from collaborations of talents and sacrifices.